A Philosophical and Practical Grammar of the English Language |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 14
Page 19
... foot feet hypothesis brother hypotheses tooth teeth penny brothers or brethren pennies or pence man men die dies or dice woman women pea peas or pease OX oxen criterion criterions or criteria louse lice focus focuses or foci goose geese ...
... foot feet hypothesis brother hypotheses tooth teeth penny brothers or brethren pennies or pence man men die dies or dice woman women pea peas or pease OX oxen criterion criterions or criteria louse lice focus focuses or foci goose geese ...
Page 21
... foot , seven pound , three tun , hundred , thousand , or million , five bushel , twenty weight , & c . Yet the most unletter- ed people never say , two minute , three hour , five day , or week , or month ; nor two inch , yard or league ...
... foot , seven pound , three tun , hundred , thousand , or million , five bushel , twenty weight , & c . Yet the most unletter- ed people never say , two minute , three hour , five day , or week , or month ; nor two inch , yard or league ...
Page 22
... foot and infantry , comprehending bodies of soldiers , are used as plural nouns and followed by verbs in the plural . Cavalry is sometimes used in like manner . CLASS 4. The fourth class of irregular nouns consists of words which have ...
... foot and infantry , comprehending bodies of soldiers , are used as plural nouns and followed by verbs in the plural . Cavalry is sometimes used in like manner . CLASS 4. The fourth class of irregular nouns consists of words which have ...
Page 137
... foot , and others simi- lar ; in which a whole quantity or space , for which we have no appropriate name , is described by smaller por- tions equivalent . The idea of unity , in all such cases , being predominant , and the only one ...
... foot , and others simi- lar ; in which a whole quantity or space , for which we have no appropriate name , is described by smaller por- tions equivalent . The idea of unity , in all such cases , being predominant , and the only one ...
Page 200
... foot , which they allow may be a Trochee . In conse- quence of this opinion , they have expunged letters from words which were necessary ; and curtailed feet in such a manner as to disfigure the beauty of printing , and in many ...
... foot , which they allow may be a Trochee . In conse- quence of this opinion , they have expunged letters from words which were necessary ; and curtailed feet in such a manner as to disfigure the beauty of printing , and in many ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
accent action adjectives admit adverb affirmation Amphibrach Anarch articulation attri attribute authors auxiliary called character clause comma common connective considered construction definitive denotes discourse distinct English English language example express fact foot future tense gender Grammar hath Hence Hist ideas idiom indefinite Indicative Mode inflections John joined language Latin letters Locke Lord loved Ye Lowth Lusiad manner modifiers n be loved n been loved NOAH WEBSTER nominative NOTE noun number of words object obsolete omitted original Paley participle passage Past Tense pause Perfect Tense phrases plural number Pope possessive preceding prefixed preposition present tense principles Prior-past pronoun qualities Rambler represents Rhet RULE Saxon semicolon sense sentence shalt or wilt signification singular number sound species subjunctive mode substitute suppose syllables Tacitus tence thine things third person tion tive transitive verb Trochee true uttered verse vowel whole writers
Popular passages
Page 26 - Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it Pleasure, and Contentment these...
Page 167 - This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him, And saved him out of all his troubles.
Page 194 - I have found out a gift for my fair; I have found where the wood-pigeons breed; But let me that plunder forbear, She will say 'twas a barbarous deed: For he ne'er could be true, she averr'd, Who could rob a poor bird of its young; And I loved her the more when I heard Such tenderness fall from her tongue.
Page 177 - And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.
Page 196 - See through this air, this ocean, and this earth, All matter quick, and bursting into birth! Above, how high progressive life may go ! Around, how wide ! how deep extend below ! Vast chain of being! which from God began; Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach; from infinite to thee; From thee to nothing...
Page 162 - For which cause we faint not ; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day
Page 203 - Verily I say unto you, Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist : notwithstanding he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.
Page 28 - And he came and dwelt in a city called Nazareth: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophets, He shall be called a Nazarene.
Page 186 - But by your father's worth if yours you rate, Count me those only who were good and great. Go! if your ancient, but ignoble blood Has crept through scoundrels ever since the flood, Go! and pretend your family is young! Nor own your fathers hav.e been fools so long. What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards? Alas ! not all the blood of all the Howards.
Page 172 - Our observation, employed either about external sensible objects, or about the internal operations of our minds, perceived and reflected on by ourselves, is that which supplies our understandings with all the materials of thinking. These two are the fountains of knowledge, from whence all the ideas we have, or can naturally have, do spring.